David Fletcher - The Universal Tank - British armour in the Second World War part 2HMSO | 1993 | ISBN: 011290534X | 132 pages | PDF | 39.6 MB

Picking up from where "The Great Tank Scandal" (published by HMSO in 1989) left off, roughly in the winter of 1942/43, "The Universal Tank" carries the story of British and Commonwealth Armoured Fighting Vehicles forward to 1945 and the end of World War II. For this volume, access to the Regimental War Diaries of the Royal Armoured Corps for the entire period has enabled the author to get much closer to the subject.

This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during thee Second World War. Its starting point is how this war was presented to, and understood by, contemporaries and howw they differentiated it from earlier conflicts. Although this was particularly noticeable in the construction of ideas .